when sandy was a hurricane, the national guard put out a nationwide call for assistance. governor jerry brown approved the mobilization, a group that specializes in complicated rescues, on october 29th, the wing loaded up planes with equipment and 100 airmen, today some airmen told me they were ready. >> whenever we go, we are prepared to do pretty much anything. especially on this last deal. we could have ended up in the mountains just as easily as downtown manhattan. >> the 29th waited on alert for delaware five days. >> we get into an area quickly, the northeast had a large number of resource because they saw the storm coming but when there's no rescue missions to be done, they sent us back. >> airmen admitted being let down. >> the adrenalin is going and you want to help people and that's why we are in this career field. it is a little disappointing when we don't get used but when we reflect back, we are like we are glad we got called. >> the 129th says that deployment is part of a aid system so the natural guard played fort mission. channel 2 news. >>> we want to get